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Trafficking in women and girls (2015), para. 55
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- 21. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Tourism Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote their global campaign urging travellers to support the fight against trafficking in persons, especially women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 33
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- 14. Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, including sexual violence and abuse, against women and girls with disabilities without delay, including by:
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 14
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- Recognizing that poverty and lack of empowerment of women, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (1995), para. 26
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- Paragraph text
- 15. Invites the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace and the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to consider including in their respective programmes of action the subject of the traffic in women and girls, as well as youth;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 28
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- Stressing the need to fully engage men and boys as agents and beneficiaries of change in the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as allies in the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 15
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- The Commission recognizes that all human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated and that the international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, and stresses that, while the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind, it is the duty of States regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 22
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- The Commission recognizes that violence against women has both short- and long-term adverse consequences on their health, including their sexual and reproductive health, and the enjoyment of their human rights, and that respecting and promoting sexual and reproductive health, and protecting and fulfilling reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, is a necessary condition to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women in order to enable them to enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to prevent and mitigate violence against women.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 16
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- The Commission stresses that all States have the obligation, at all levels, to use all appropriate means of a legislative, political, economic, social and administrative nature in order to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls, and must exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls and end impunity, and to provide protection as well as access to appropriate remedies for victims and survivors.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 32
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- The Commission welcomes the progress made in addressing violence against women and girls such as the adoption of relevant laws and policies, the implementation of preventive measures, the establishment of protection and appropriate support services for victims and survivors and improvement in data collection, analysis and research. In this regard, the Commission welcomes the contributions and participation of governments, at all levels, and all relevant stakeholders in efforts to address violence against women and girls in a holistic manner.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls 2014, para. 30
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- The Commission strongly condemns all forms of violence against women and girls. It expresses deep concern that discrimination and violence against women and girls continue to occur in all parts of the world and that all forms of violence against women and girls are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners with men and boys in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls 2014, para. 8
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- The Commission also reaffirms the commitment to the full and effective implementation of and follow-up to all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, in particular the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, as well as relevant resolutions of the Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies, and recalls relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, in the area of gender equality, the empowerment of women and human rights of women and girls. It also reaffirms its previous agreed conclusions, including, inter alia, on women and the economy and on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 3
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- The Commission reaffirms that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Optional Protocols thereto, as well as other relevant conventions and treaties, provide an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for the elimination and prevention of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, as a cross-cutting issue addressed in different international instruments.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.9.a
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.9. Violence and discrimination] (a) Condemn all forms of violence against girls and take effective legislative and other measures to prevent and eliminate all such violence, including physical, mental, psychological and sexual violence, torture, child abuse and exploitation, hostage-taking, domestic violence, trafficking in or sale of children and their organs, paedophilia, child prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism, gang-related violence and harmful traditional practices in all settings;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.3.a
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.3. Gender stereotypes] (a) Recognize that eliminating stereotypes calls for a deep societal change that needs to be supported through the development of strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes in all spheres of life, and foster the positive portrayal of women and girls at all levels, including as leaders and decision makers, including through developing and implementing appropriate legislation, policies and programmes, as well as awareness campaigns, to address stereotypical attitudes and behaviours that contribute to discrimination and violence against girls;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.7.a
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.7. Armed conflict] (a) Take special measures for the protection of girls affected by armed conflict and by post-conflict situations and, in particular, protect them from sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, including rape and sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation, torture, abduction and forced labour, paying special attention to refugee and displaced girls; and take into account the special needs of girls affected by unilateral measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations and by armed conflicts in the delivery of humanitarian assistance and disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation assistance and reintegration processes, and that girls living under foreign occupation must also be protected in accordance with the provisions of international humanitarian law;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 29
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- The Commission acknowledges the strategic and coordinating role of national machineries for the advancement of women, which should be placed at the highest possible level in government, for the elimination of discrimination and violence against women and girls, and the need to endow these machineries with the necessary human and sufficient financial resources to enable them to function effectively. The Commission also acknowledges the contribution of national human rights institutions where they exist.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.9.e
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.9. Violence and discrimination] (e) Strengthen advocacy and rights-based awareness-raising programmes directed at eliminating all forms of violence and discrimination against girls by engaging girls and boys, parents and families, local community, political, religious and traditional leaders and educational institutions, and provide adequate financial support to efforts at both national and local levels to change behaviour, stereotyped attitudes and harmful practices;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 7
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- The Commission reaffirms the commitment to the full and effective implementation of and follow-up to all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, in particular the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and the Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. It also reaffirms its previous agreed conclusions on violence against women (1998) and on elimination of discrimination and violence against the girl child (2007).
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.6.b
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.6. Child labour] (b) Raise government and public awareness as to the nature and scope of the special needs of girls, including migrant girls, employed as domestic workers and of those performing excessive domestic chores in their own households, and develop measures to prevent their labour and economic exploitation and sexual abuse, and ensure that they have access to education and vocational training, health services, food, shelter and recreation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 15y
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- [The Commission urges Governments, [...] to take the following actions [...]:] (y) Take measures to address the special needs of girls, including migrant girls, employed as domestic workers and caregivers, as well as those that have to perform excessive domestic chores and caregiving responsibilities, and to provide access to education, vocational training, health services, food, shelter and recreation, while ensuring the prevention and elimination of child labour and economic exploitation of girls;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.16.c
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.16. Data collection] (c) Collect data disaggregated by age, sex and other relevant factors addressing the specific situation of vulnerable girls and systematically report on internationally agreed indicators related to the girl child as contained in the Millennium Development Goals, and support the development of additional indicators in consultation with the Statistical Commission, as appropriate, to more systematically and effectively measure national progress in eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.10.a
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.10. Trafficking] (a) Take appropriate measures to ensure that all efforts aimed at combating trafficking in persons are gender- and child-sensitive, including in actions to address the factors that increase vulnerability to being trafficked, such as poverty and gender inequality, and to eliminate the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of women and girls that leads to trafficking, and where girls are identified in situations of exploitation take all appropriate measures to remove them from harm and protect them without delay;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.13.c
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.13. Empowering girls] (c) Invest in awareness campaigns, and provide education and training, including specialized training on violence, gender issues, discrimination and human rights, to parents and legal guardians, families, political, religious, traditional and community leaders, and all professions relevant to the protection and empowerment of girls, including educators, social workers, police officers, judges, lawyers, prosecutors and the media, to increase awareness and commitment to the promotion and protection of the rights of girls and appropriate responses to rights violations;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 10
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- The Commission affirms that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, and persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of the enjoyment of human rights. Gender-based violence is a form of discrimination that seriously violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. Violence against women and girls is characterized by the use and abuse of power and control in public and private spheres, and is intrinsically linked with gender stereotypes that underlie and perpetuate such violence, as well as other factors that can increase women's and girls' vulnerability to such violence.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 10
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- The Commission expresses concern that the girl child does not receive sufficiently explicit attention in policy and programme development and resource allocation. It is also concerned that the lack of resources and data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant factors addressing the specific situation of vulnerable girls remains a serious constraint in formulating and implementing effective, targeted policies and programmes and monitoring progress in eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 15tt
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- [The Commission urges Governments, [...] to take the following actions [...]:] (tt) Encourage and support men and boys to take an active part in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence, especially gender-based violence, including by developing strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes and by developing programmes that promote respectful relationships, and rehabilitate perpetrators as part of a strategy of zero tolerance for violence against women and girls;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.3.b
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.3. Gender stereotypes] (b) Target and work with men and boys, as well as women and girls and other actors, such as parents, teachers, religious and traditional leaders and educational and media institutions, to address stereotypical attitudes and behaviours, and encourage decision makers at all levels with responsibilities for policies, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against girls and in the promotion of girls empowerment;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 20
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- The Commission also recognizes the persistence of obstacles that remain for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, and that the prevention of and response to such violence require States to act, at all levels, at each and every opportunity in a comprehensive and holistic manner that recognizes the linkages between violence against women and girls and other issues, such as education, health, HIV and AIDS, poverty eradication, food security, peace and security, humanitarian assistance and crime prevention.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.9.b
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.9. Violence and discrimination] (b) Take all appropriate measures to strengthen legal frameworks, including the review and amendment of existing legislation, the enactment of new laws where necessary, developing adequate programmes and formulating appropriate policies to prevent, prosecute and punish all cases of violence against girls, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life, and in particular physical, sexual, and psychological violence, wherever it occurs, within or outside the family;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.10.b
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.10. Trafficking] (b) Strengthen and improve international cooperation and coordination, including regional efforts in the fight against trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, in order to prevent trafficking; protect, assist, rehabilitate and reintegrate victims; and prosecute and punish offenders in accordance with due process of law on the basis of the principles of shared responsibility, respect for human rights and the active cooperation of countries of origin, transit and destination and other relevant actors thereto;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 13f
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- [The Commission urges Governments to take the following actions:] [Norms and policies] (f) Review and, where appropriate, revise, amend or abolish all laws, regulations, policies, practices and customs that discriminate against women or the girl child or have a discriminatory impact on women or the girl child, and ensure that provisions of multiple legal systems, where they exist, comply with international human rights obligations, commitments and principles, including the principle of non-discrimination;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.9.j
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.9. Violence and discrimination] (j) Develop and strengthen partnerships involving Governments, civil society, the media and business sectors and other relevant actors in the elimination of child pornography, including child pornography transmitted through the media and ICTs, in the protection of the girl child from related abuses and exploitation, and in training, inter alia, law enforcers, prosecutors, judges and social workers, as appropriate, in order to build effective capacities to eradicate child pornography;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.6.a
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.6. Child labour] (a) Ensure that the applicable ILO requirements for the employment of girls and boys are respected and effectively enforced, and ensure also that girls who are employed have equal access to decent work, equal payment and remuneration and are protected from economic exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace, are aware of their rights, and have access to formal and non-formal education, skills development, and vocational training, and develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans where appropriate, to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, including commercial sexual exploitation, slave-like practices, forced and bonded labour, trafficking, and hazardous forms of child labour;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 13g
- Paragraph text
- [The Commission urges Governments to take the following actions:] [Norms and policies] (g) Condemn all forms of discrimination and violence against girls and enact and/or strengthen legislation on preventing and eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against girls, develop policies that ensure its full and effective implementation, and put in place adequate national and local mechanisms to monitor compliance with these laws and policies, with the active participation of civil society, where appropriate;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.12.a
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.12. Migration] (a) Build awareness of the risks encountered by girls in the context of migration, particularly in the context of irregular migration, such as sexual and labour exploitation, migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, and develop gender-sensitive migration policies and training programmes for law enforcement personnel, prosecutors and service providers that ensure the delivery of proper and professional interventions for girl migrants who are subjected to abuse and violence;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.9.f
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.9. Violence and discrimination] (f) Create and support, as appropriate, community-based networks to advocate against all forms of violence against girls, develop programmes to sensitize and train health workers and other professionals working with and for the girl child to the issue, including on the early detection of violence, and integrate comprehensive measures and incentives that promote the full enjoyment of human rights and equality by the girl child into national development strategies;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 16
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- The Commission calls on all States and the international community, including the United Nations system, and invites international and non-governmental organizations and the private sector to mobilize and allocate all necessary resources, support and efforts, including at the international level, to realize the goals, strategic objectives and actions set out in the Beijing Platform for Action with regard to the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child and the further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as other relevant commitments.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.3.c
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.3. Gender stereotypes] (c) Ensure that men and women, and boys and girls are educated on girls' rights and their responsibility to respect the rights of others, inter alia, by integrating girls' rights into appropriate curricula at all levels, including in schools and the vocational training of health workers, teachers, law enforcement personnel, military personnel, social workers, the judiciary, community leaders, the media and others and encourage men and boys to speak out strongly against all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls and not to protect perpetrators or condone their violence;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.16.a
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- [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.16. Data collection] (a) Encourage and strengthen national research, monitoring and evaluation of the progress in eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child, in particular in areas where there is a dearth of information, including, as appropriate, through the development of reliable standardized methodology for the systematic collection, analysis and use in policy formulation of gender-specific data and statistics, disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant factors addressing the specific situation of vulnerable girls, and disseminate lessons learned and good practices;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Children
- Girls
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 2
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- The Commission also reaffirms the outcome of the 2002 World Summit on Children and the international commitments to gender equality and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child made at the World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, as well as those made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and at the 2005 World Summit, and reaffirms further that their full and effective and accelerated implementation are integral to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.
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- Gender
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The girl child 1998, para. f
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Design mechanisms and strengthen international cooperation to better protect girls and bring to justice the perpetrators of such crimes;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
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- 1998
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Women's equal participation in conflict prevention, management and resolution and in post-conflict peace-building 2004, para. 7
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- The Commission recognizes that while both men and women suffer from the consequences of armed conflict, there is a differential impact on women and girls, who are often subject to, and affected by, particular forms of violence and deprivation. The Commission calls for measures to prevent gender-based violence, including sexual violence against women and girls, as well as trafficking in human beings, especially trafficking in women and girls, arising from armed conflict and in post-conflict situations and to prosecute perpetrators of such crimes.
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- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
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- Year
- 2004
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Violence against women 1998, para. k
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Criminalize all forms of trafficking in women and girls for the purposes of sexual exploitation and penalize all traffickers;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1998
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Enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling environment for achieving gender equality and the advancement of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education, health and work 2006, para. 7k
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- [The Commission urged Governments […] to take the following actions:] Eliminate all forms of discrimination, sexual exploitation and violence against female refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced persons and promote their active involvement in decisions affecting their lives and communities, while recalling the relevant norms of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international refugee law;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2006
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Gender and all forms of discrimination, in particular racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 2001, para. 5a
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, the United Nations and civil society, as appropriate]: Respect fully international human rights law and international humanitarian law applicable to the rights and protection of women and girls and take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and all other forms of sexual violence during armed conflict, and end impunity and prosecute those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, including those relating to sexual and other gender-based violence against women and girls;
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- Violence
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- 2001
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The girl child 1998, para. f
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, international organizations and the private sector:] Consider the implementation of the actions identified in the Agenda for Action of the 1997 Oslo Conference on Child Labour.
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality 2004, para. 6l
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- [The Commission urges Governments [...] to take the following actions:] Take effective measures, to the extent consistent with freedom of expression, to combat the growing sexualization of, and use of pornography in, media content and in the rapid development of information and communications technology, encourage men in the media to refrain from presenting women as inferior beings and exploiting them as sexual objects and commodities, combat information and communications technology- and media-based violence against women, including criminal misuse of information and communications technology for sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and trafficking in women and girls, and support the development and use of such technology as a resource for the empowerment of women and girls, including those affected by violence, abuse and other forms of sexual exploitation;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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- 2004
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The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality 2004, para. 6r
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- [The Commission urges Governments [...] to take the following actions:] Encourage and support men and boys to take an active part in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence, especially gender-based violence, including in the context of HIV/AIDS, and increase awareness of men's and boys' responsibility in ending the cycle of violence, inter alia, through the promotion of attitudinal and behavioural change, integrated education and training prioritizing the safety of women and children, the prosecution and rehabilitation of perpetrators of violence and support for survivors, recognizing that men and boys also experience violence;
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- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2004
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Gender and all forms of discrimination, in particular racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 2001, para. 2h
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, the United Nations and civil society, as appropriate]: Devise, enforce and strengthen effective measures to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in women and girls through a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy consisting of, inter alia, legislative measures, prevention campaigns, information exchange, assistance and protection for and reintegration of the victims and prosecution of all the offenders involved, including intermediaries;
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2001
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Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome 2001, para. 1j
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, the United Nations system and civil society, as appropriate]: Strengthen concrete measures to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional and customary practices, abuse and rape, battering and trafficking in women and girls, which aggravate the conditions fostering the spread of HIV/AIDS, through, inter alia, the enactment and enforcement of laws, as well as public campaigns to combat violence against women and girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2001
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The girl child 1998, para. g
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Adopt measures that ensure that judicial and legal processes are sensitive to the specific needs of abused girls to prevent further traumatization or victimization.
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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The girl child 1998, para. b
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, international organizations and civil society:] Consider implementing the recommendations of the Declaration and Agenda for Action of the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm in 1996;
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- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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The girl child 1998, para. c
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, international organizations and civil society:] Establish recovery programmes for children who have been abused or sexually exploited, with specially trained personnel to provide a safe and supportive environment.
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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The girl child 1998, para. d
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Enact and enforce laws that prohibit sexual exploitation including prostitution, incest, abuse and trafficking of children, paying special attention to girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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Violence against women 1998, para. h
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Investigate, and in accordance with national legislation, punish all acts of violence against women and girls, including those perpetrated by public officials;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1998
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Gender and all forms of discrimination, in particular racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 2001, para. 5b
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, the United Nations and civil society, as appropriate]: Violence against women and girls is a major obstacle to the achievement of the objectives of gender equality, development and peace. Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. Gender-based violence, such as battering and other domestic violence, sexual abuse, sexual slavery and exploitation, international trafficking in women and children, forced prostitution and sexual harassment, as well as violence against women resulting from cultural prejudice, racism and racial discrimination, xenophobia, pornography, ethnic cleansing, armed conflict, foreign occupation, religious and anti-religious extremism and terrorism, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and must be combated and eliminated;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2001
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Violence against women 1998, para. g
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Explore the possibility of mechanisms such as national rapporteurs, who report to Governments on the scale, prevention and combating of violence against women, particularly trafficking in women and girls.
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1998
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Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women 2003, para. 4o
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- [The Commission urges Governments [...] to take the following actions:] Take effective measures, to the extent consistent with freedom of expression, to combat the growing sexualization and use of pornography in media content, in terms of the rapid development of ICT, encourage the media to refrain from presenting women as inferior beings and exploiting them as sexual objects and commodities, combat ICT- and media-based violence against women, including criminal misuse of ICT for sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and trafficking in women and girls, and support the development and use of ICT as a resource for the empowerment of women and girls, including those affected by violence, abuse and other forms of sexual exploitation;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2003
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 12
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- Deeply concerned that all forms of violence against women and girls, discrimination and harmful practices are among key contributing factors to the spread of HIV among women and girls,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
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Violence against women 1998, para. o
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments, non-governmental organizations and the public and private sector, as appropriate:] Include in national budgets adequate resources related to the elimination of violence against women and girls.
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1998
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 21
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- Encourages Member States and the international community to take measures to protect women and girls, including indigenous and rural women and girls, those living in poverty and those with disabilities, regardless of their immigration status, from gender-based violence and from early and forced marriage, and to fully implement their obligations under national and international law with respect to preventing violence and investigating and punishing the perpetrators, and also encourages Member States and the international community to provide victims with access to appropriate quality, comprehensive, integrated and accessible health-care services and counselling and to primary and secondary education, and to scale up humanitarian and legal assistance to victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence, including when used as a tactic of war, inter alia, to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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Violence against women 1998, para. a
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- [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Consider, where appropriate, formulating bilateral, subregional and regional agreements to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers, especially women and girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 18
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- Also urges Governments to strengthen, implement and enforce legal, policy, administrative and other measures for preventing, eliminating and addressing the causes and consequences of all forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, child, early and forced marriage, domestic violence, violence at work, verbal and physical abuse, rape, including marital rape, and other forms of sexual violence and coerced sexual activity, battering and trafficking in women and girls, and to ensure that linkages between violence against women and HIV are addressed as an integral part of the national HIV and AIDS response;
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2014
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2011, para. 13
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- Urges Governments to strengthen and implement legal, policy, administrative and other measures for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional and customary practices, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, abuse, early marriage, child and forced marriage, rape, including marital rape, and other forms of sexual violence and coerced sexual activity, battering and trafficking in women and girls, and to ensure that violence against women is addressed as an integral part of the national HIV and AIDS response;
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- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 6
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- Urges States to take all necessary measures, including enacting and enforcing legislation to prohibit female genital mutilation and to protect girls and women from this form of violence, and to end impunity;
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- Harmful Practices
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2010
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 4
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- Welcoming the initiative taken by the Secretary-General on 25 February 2008 to launch a multi-year campaign to end violence against women,
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- Gender
- Health
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2009
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2010, para. 13
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- Urges Governments to strengthen and implement legal, policy, administrative and other measures for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional and customary practices, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, abuse, early marriage, child and forced marriage, rape, including marital rape, and other forms of sexual violence and coerced sexual activity, battering and trafficking in women and girls, and to ensure that violence against women is addressed as an integral part of the national HIV and AIDS response;
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- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2010
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 2
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- Welcoming the in-depth study of the Secretary-General on all forms of violence against women, and taking note of the recommendations contained therein,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2009
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 3
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- Also welcoming the initiative taken by the Secretary-General on 25 February 2008 to launch a multi-year campaign to end violence against women,
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- Gender
- Health
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2008
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 6
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- Urges States to take all necessary measures, including enacting and enforcing legislation to prohibit female genital mutilation and to protect girls and women from this form of violence, and to end impunity;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2008
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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 10
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- Urges States to take all necessary measures to protect girls and women from female genital mutilation, including by enacting and enforcing legislation to prohibit this form of violence and to end impunity;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2007
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 2
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- Welcoming the in-depth study of the Secretary-General on all forms of violence against women, and taking note of the recommendations contained therein,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2008
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Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 13
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- Concerned that forced marriage can involve threatening behaviour, abduction, imprisonment, physical, psychological and sexual violence, rape, and even murder,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 10
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- Welcoming the convening of the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, which was held at Stockholm from 27 to 31 August 1996, and other conferences on trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 8
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- Noting the need to raise awareness of the important role of the media, including new forms of information technology, in informing and educating people about the causes and effects of violence against women and in stimulating public debate on the topic,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 4
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- Bearing in mind the need to strengthen the implementation of all relevant human rights instruments in order to combat and eliminate, including through international cooperation, organized and other forms of trafficking in women or children, including trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation, pornography, prostitution and sex tourism, and provide legal and social services to the victims; this should include provisions for international cooperation to prosecute and punish those responsible for organized exploitation of women and children,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 2
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- Recalling the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 5
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- Acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also victimizes young boys,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1996
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Eliminating demand for trafficked women and girls for all forms of exploitation 2005, para. 3
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- Also recalling the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and Convention No. 29 and No. 182 of the International Labour Organization,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2005
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Eliminating demand for trafficked women and girls for all forms of exploitation 2005, para. 1e
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- [Calls upon Governments to:] Conclude bilateral, subregional, regional and international agreements to address the problem of trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, including mutual assistance treaties, agreements and memorandums of understanding to enhance law enforcement and judicial cooperation, and specific measures aimed at reducing demand, as appropriate, to complement the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2005
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 11
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- Welcomes the holding of national, regional and international meetings on trafficking in order to propose measures to eradicate the traffic in women and girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 4
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- Recalling further, and concurring with the conclusions and recommendations of recent international conferences, including the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna in 1993, the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen in 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994, and the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, on the human rights of women and girl children, in particular with respect to the violation of those rights for the profit of recruiters, traffickers and crime syndicates, as well as other illegal activities related to trafficking, such as forced domestic labour, false marriages, child marriages, clandestine employment and false adoption,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 1
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- Reaffirming its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 6
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- Recognizing the link between trafficking in women and girl children and some forms of sexual exploitation, including sex tourism, pornography, bride markers and prostitution,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Eliminating demand for trafficked women and girls for all forms of exploitation 2005, para. 2
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- Recalling the full range of previous resolutions on the problem of trafficking in women and girls adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, in particular their reaffirmation of the principles set forth in the relevant human rights instruments and declarations and the resolve expressed by heads of Government in the United Nations Millennium Declaration to intensify efforts to fight transnational organized crime in all its dimensions, including trafficking in human beings,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
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- 2005
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 7
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- Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, to continue to pay special attention to the problem of trafficking in women and girl children, and to make available their reports thereon to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-second session;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Integrating a gender perspective in post-disaster relief, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, including in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster 2005, para. 8
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- Strongly urges Governments, United Nations entities and other relevant bodies to take necessary measures, including the development and implementation of gender-sensitive codes of conduct, to protect women and girls from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse and all other forms of violence in the context of natural disasters and to provide appropriate care and support for women and girls who have been exposed to sexual abuse and other forms of violence;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Girls
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 1b
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- [Calls for the implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women by Governments of countries of origin, transit and destination and regional and international organizations, as appropriate, by:] (b) Taking appropriate measures to address the root factors, including external factors, that encourage trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriages and forced labour in order to eliminate trafficking in women, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing the perpetrators, through both criminal and civil measures;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 9
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- Welcomes the proposal contained in General Assembly resolution 51/120 of 12 December 1996 for the elaboration of an international convention against organized transnational crime;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 7
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- Concerned about the increasing number of women and girl children from developing countries and from some countries with economies in transition who are being victimized by traffickers,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 3
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- Calls upon all Governments to take appropriate measures to prevent the misuse and exploitation by traffickers of such economic activities as the development of tourism and the export of labour;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 2d
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- [Calls for the acceleration of the implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women by Governments of countries of origin, transit and destination and regional and international organizations as appropriate by:] (d) Allocating resources to provide comprehensive programmes designed to heal and rehabilitate into society victims of trafficking, including through job training and the provisions of legal assistance and confidential health care, as well as by taking measures to cooperate with non-governmental organizations to provide for the social, medical and psychological care of the victims of trafficking;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 1d
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- [Calls for the implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women by Governments of countries of origin, transit and destination and regional and international organizations, as appropriate, by:] (d) Allocating resources to provide comprehensive programmes designed to heal and rehabilitate into society victims of trafficking, including through job training and the provision of legal assistance and confidential health care, taking measures to cooperate with non-governmental organizations to provide for the social, medical and psychological care of the victims of trafficking;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 6
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- Calls upon all Governments to take appropriate measures to prevent misuse and exploitation by traffickers of such economic activities as the development of tourism and the export of labour;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Eliminating demand for trafficked women and girls for all forms of exploitation 2005, para. 1b
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- [Calls upon Governments to:] Take appropriate measures to address the root factors, including poverty and gender inequality, as well as external factors that encourage trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriage and forced labour, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing perpetrators, through both criminal and civil measures;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2005
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 10
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- Welcoming the holding of national, regional and international meetings on trafficking in order to propose measures to eradicate the traffic in women and girls,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1996
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 2b
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- [Calls for the acceleration of the implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women by Governments of countries of origin, transit and destination and regional and international organizations as appropriate by:] (b) Taking appropriate measures to address the root factors, including external forces, that encourage trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriages and forced labour in order to eliminate trafficking in women, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing the perpetrators through both criminal and civil measures;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 8
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- Encourages the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to continue to consider the problem of trafficking in human persons in the context of its discussions on the question of organized transnational crime;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 1
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- Reaffirming its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 8
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- Acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also victimizes young boys,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 7
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- Convinced of the need to eliminate all forms of sexual violence and sexual trafficking, including for prostitution and other forms of commercial sex, which are violations of the human rights of women and girl children,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 1997
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 2
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- Reaffirming the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly resolution 217 A (III). the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex. the International Covenants on Human Rights, General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI). the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, General Assembly resolution 39/46, annex. the Convention on the Rights of the Child, General Assembly resolution 44/25, annex. and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, General Assembly resolution 48/104, annex.
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 8
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- Recalling that the Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 1994/45 of 4 March 1994, called for the elimination of trafficking in women,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 1995
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 5
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- Convinced of the need to eliminate all forms of sexual violence and trafficking in women and girls which are violations of the human rights of women and girl children,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 1
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- Expresses its grave concern over the worsening problems of trafficking, particularly the increasing syndication of the sex trade and the internationalization of the traffic in women and girl children;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 4
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- Welcoming the recognition by the World Summit for Social Development of the danger to society of the trafficking in women and children,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 6
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- Calls upon all Governments to take appropriate measures to prevent the misuse and exploitation by traffickers of such economic activities as the development of tourism and the export of labour;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 6
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- Condemning the illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international borders, largely from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition, with the end goal of forcing women and girl children into sexually or economically oppressive and exploitative situations, for the profit of recruiters, traffickers and crime syndicates, as well as other illegal activities related to trafficking, such as forced domestic labour, false marriages, child marriages, clandestine employment and false adoption,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 7
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- Noting the increasing number of women and girl children from developing countries and from some countries with economies in transition who are being victimized by traffickers, and acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also victimizes young boys,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1995
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 14
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- Deeply concerned that, every five minutes, a child dies as a result of violence and that, globally, in the past year, 1 billion children between 2 and 17 years of age experienced physical, sexual, emotional or multiple types of violence, with an estimated 120 million girls and 73 million boys having been victims of sexual violence at some point in their lives, and particularly welcoming in this respect target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals to end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
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- 2017
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ccc
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Also take measures to ensure the protection of self-employed workers in cross-border work and women seasonal workers from violence and discrimination;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 10
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- Welcoming in particular the efforts of States, United Nations bodies and agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children, including the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/293 of 30 July 2010,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons 2016, para. 10
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- Strongly condemns the continued perpetration of sexual and gender-based violence against internally displaced persons of all ages, with women and girls disproportionately victimized, and urges authorities and the international community to work together for effective prevention and response, security, protection of human rights, access to justice and victim assistance, and in addressing the causes of violence against women and girls and fighting impunity across the board;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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- 2016
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 14
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- Noting the renewal by the Human Rights Council, at its twenty-sixth session, of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and the fact that part of her task is to integrate a gender- and age-specific perspective throughout the work of her mandate, inter alia, through the identification of gender- and age-specific vulnerabilities in relation to the issue of trafficking in persons,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Elimination of discrimination against women 2016, para. 16
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- Stresses the need to accelerate efforts at all levels to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, violence on their way to or at school, in other public spaces and in health facilities;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 16
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- Bearing in mind the obligations of States to exercise due diligence to prevent trafficking in persons, to investigate and punish perpetrators of trafficking in persons and to protect and empower victims, and that not doing so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the victims,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 20
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- Urges Governments to strengthen measures to eliminate sex tourism demand, especially for children, through all possible preventive actions, including legislative measures and other relevant policies and programmes;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2014
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 28
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- Requests the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences to present an annual report to the General Assembly at its seventieth and seventy-first sessions;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2014
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Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 19
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- Recognizing the heightened vulnerability to trafficking of women and girls in humanitarian crisis situations, including in conflict and post-conflict environments, natural disasters and other emergency environments,
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2014
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 26
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- Acknowledges the work of the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, as requested by the Statistical Commission, on the development of guidelines to support the production by Member States of statistics on violence against women and girls;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2014
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 8
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- Recognizing the importance of a revitalized global partnership to ensure the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including the implementation of the goals and targets related to ending violence against women and girls and human trafficking, and in this regard taking note with appreciation of Alliance 8.7 and of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 17
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- Seriously concerned that an increasing number of women and girls are being trafficked, including to developed countries, as well as within and between regions and States, and recognizing that trafficking in persons disproportionately affects women and girls and that men and boys are also victims of trafficking, including for sexual exploitation,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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- 2016
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 23
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- Recognizing further the need to reinforce efforts regarding the provision of relevant documents, such as birth registration documents, in order to lower the risk of being trafficked and to help to identify victims of trafficking in persons,
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective L6
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- Eliminate the economic exploitation of child labour and protect young girls at work
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- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34aa
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Take appropriate measures to ensure the human rights and protection of women and girls deprived of their liberty and/or under State custody or State care from all forms of violence, in particular sexual abuse;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 14e
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- Ensuring women’s and girls’, including indigenous women’s and girls’, unimpeded access to justice, effective legal assistance and information regarding their human rights without discrimination so that they have access to just and effective remedies for the harm that they have experienced, including through the adoption of national legislation;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 16
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- Welcomes the panel discussion on domestic violence against women and girls, held during the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights at the twenty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, and requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present a summary report on the discussion to the Council at its thirtieth session;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2015
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Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls 2016, para. 4
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- Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report on the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls, with a view to identifying challenges and good practices, including, as appropriate, the contributions of the universal periodic review, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34bb
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Adopt a life-cycle approach in efforts to end discrimination and violence against women and girls, and ensure that specific issues affecting older women are given greater visibility and attention, are addressed through the fulfilment of obligations under relevant international conventions and agreements and are included in national policies and programmes to prevent and eliminate violence against women;
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Older persons
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34f
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Ensure women's and girls' unimpeded access to justice and to effective legal assistance so that they can make informed decisions regarding, inter alia, legal proceedings and issues relating to family law and criminal law, and also ensure that they have access to just and effective remedies for the harm that they have suffered, including through the adoption of national legislation where necessary;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34dd
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Promote women's full participation in the formal economy, in particular in economic decision-making, and their equal access to full employment and decent work; empower women in the informal sector; and ensure that women and men enjoy equal treatment in the workplace, as well as equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and equal access to power and decision-making, and promote sharing of paid and unpaid work;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34gg
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social, educational and other measures to protect and promote the rights of women and girls with disabilities as they are more vulnerable to all forms of exploitation, violence and abuse, including in the workplace, educational institutions, the home and other settings;
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Persons with disabilities
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 35
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- [Improving the evidence-base]: The Commission emphasizes that ending violence against women and girls is imperative, including for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and must be a priority for the eradication of poverty, the achievement of inclusive sustainable development, peace and security, human rights, health, gender equality and the empowerment of women, sustainable and inclusive economic growth and social cohesion, and vice versa. The Commission strongly recommends that the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women be considered as a priority in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda.
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34s
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Strengthen bilateral, regional and international cooperation, by consolidating existing mechanisms and developing new initiatives consistent with the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and its supplementary Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and by implementing the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons;
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Children
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- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34p
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Underline commitments to strengthen national efforts, including with the support of international cooperation, aimed at addressing the rights and needs of women and girls affected by natural disasters, armed conflicts, other complex humanitarian emergencies, trafficking in persons and terrorism, within the context of actions geared to addressing and eliminating violence against women and girls and the realization of the internationally agreed goals and commitments related to gender equality and the empowerment of women, including the Millennium Development Goals; and also underline the need to take concerted actions in conformity with international law to remove the obstacles to the full realization of the rights of women and girls living under foreign occupation, so as to ensure the achievement of the above-mentioned goals and commitments;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34pp
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Engage, educate, encourage and support men and boys to take responsibility for their behaviour, to ensure that men and adolescent boys take responsibility for their sexual and reproductive behaviour, and to refrain from all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls; develop, invest in and implement policies, strategies and programmes, including comprehensive education programmes to increase their understanding of the harmful effects of violence and how it undermines gender equality and human dignity, promote respectful relationships, provide positive role models for gender equality and encourage men and boys to take an active part and become strategic partners and allies in the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34fff
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening multisectoral services, programmes and responses to violence against women and girls]: Ensure the availability and accessibility for victims and survivors and their children of services, programmes and opportunities, for their full recovery and reintegration into society, as well as full access to justice, including for those subjected to domestic violence and other forms of violence, by putting in place measures, and where these exist, expanding such measures; and ensure the provision of adequate and timely information on available support services and legal measures, when possible in a language that they understand and in which they can communicate;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 9
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- Concerned further that women and girls are physiologically more vulnerable to HIV, especially at an earlier age, than men and boys, and that this is increased by violence against women, girls and adolescents, sexual exploitation, including commercial sexual exploitation, premature and coerced sexual relations, harmful practices, such as child, early and force marriage, female genital mutilation, as well as an imbalance in the power dynamic between women and men, and unequal legal, economic and social status, including poverty,
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- Resolution
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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- 2014
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34uu
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Develop and support existing policies and programmes targeting children and young people, especially women, who have experienced or witnessed domestic violence or sexual abuse, including protection for children in the justice system, so as to reduce the risk of their possible revictimization or perpetration of violence and restore their health; and implement such programmes in a gender-responsive manner with the meaningful participation of young people, civil society and women's and youth organizations, and educational and health institutions;
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
- Youth
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ff
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that impede the full achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing countries;
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ll
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Carry out awareness-raising and education campaigns, in cooperation with civil society organizations, especially women's organizations, through different means of communication, targeting the general public, young people, men and boys, to address the structural and underlying causes of violence and abuse against women and girls; to overcome gender stereotypes and promote zero tolerance for such violence; to remove the stigma of being a victim and survivor of violence; and to create an enabling environment where women and girls can easily report incidences of violence and make use of the services available and of protection and assistance programmes;
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34aaa
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Condemn and take action to prevent violence against women and girls in health-care settings, including sexual harassment, humiliation and forced medical procedures, or those conducted without informed consent, and which may be irreversible, such as forced hysterectomy, forced caesarean section, forced sterilization, forced abortion, and forced use of contraceptives, especially for particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged women and girls, such as those living with HIV, women and girls with disabilities, indigenous and Afro-descendent women and girls, pregnant adolescents and young mothers, older women, and women and girls from national or ethnic minorities;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
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- 2013
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34rr
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Ensure the provision of viable alternatives and institutional support, including for girls who are already married and/or pregnant, especially educational opportunities with an emphasis on keeping girls in school through post-primary education and promoting the empowerment of girls through improving educational quality and ensuring safe and hygienic conditions in schools, physical access to education, including by establishing safe residential facilities and childcare, and increasing financial incentives to women and their families where necessary;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34eee
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening multisectoral services, programmes and responses to violence against women and girls]: Further take measures to coordinate services through the establishment of processes for referral between services of victims and survivors while ensuring their confidentiality and safety, establish national benchmarks and timelines, and monitor their progress and implementation; as well as ensure access to coordinated multisectoral services, programmes and responses for all women and girls at risk of or subjected to violence;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 13
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- Encourages the media to examine the impact of gender-role stereotypes, including those perpetuated by commercial advertisements that foster gender-based violence and inequalities, to promote zero tolerance for such violence and to remove the stigma of being a victim and survivor of violence, thus creating an enabling and accessible environment where women and girls can easily report incidents of violence and make use of the services available, including protection and assistance programmes;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 14b
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- Adopting and funding policy reforms and programmes, and support education, in order to sensitize, train and strengthen the capacity of public officials and professionals, including the judiciary, the police and the military, as well as those working in the areas of education, health, social welfare, justice, defence and immigration; and holding public officials accountable for not complying with laws and regulations relating to violence against women and girls, in order to prevent and respond to such violence in a gender-sensitive manner, to end impunity and to avoid the abuse of power leading to violence against women and the revictimization of victims and survivors;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Education
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 12
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- Also encourages States to improve the collection, harmonization and use of data disaggregated by sex, and administrative data, including, where appropriate, from the police, the health sector and the judiciary, on incidents of all forms of violence against women and girls, including against indigenous women and girls, such as data on the relationship between the perpetrator and victim and geographic location, ensuring that confidentiality and ethical and safety considerations are taken into account in the process of data collection, and improving the effectiveness of the services and programmes provided and protecting the safety and security of the victim;
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- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34nnn
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Improving the evidence-base]: (nnn) Collect, collate, analyse and disseminate reliable, comparable and anonymized data and statistics on a regular basis, disaggregated by sex and age, at the national and local levels on different forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, including the health costs and economic costs to society of such discrimination and violence, and also consider all other relevant factors, such as accessibility, to inform the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of laws, policies and programmes;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Health
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34h
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Review and where appropriate, revise, amend or abolish all laws, regulations, policies, practices and customs that discriminate against women or have a discriminatory impact on women, and ensure that the provisions of multiple legal systems, where they exist, comply with international human rights obligations, commitments and principles, including the principle of non-discrimination;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34qq
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Review, enact and strictly enforce laws and regulations concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, raising the minimum age for marriage where necessary, and generate social support for the enforcement of these laws in order to end the practice of child, early and forced marriage;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34m
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Ensure accountability for the killing, maiming and targeting of women and girls and crimes of sexual violence, as prohibited under international law, stressing the need for the exclusion of such crimes from amnesty provisions in the context of conflict resolution processes, and address such acts in all stages of the armed-conflict and post-conflict resolution process, including through transitional justice mechanisms, while taking steps to ensure the full and effective participation of women in such processes;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34iii
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening multisectoral services, programmes and responses to violence against women and girls]: Address all health consequences, including the physical, mental and sexual and reproductive health consequences, of violence against women and girls by providing accessible health-care services that are responsive to trauma and include affordable, safe, effective and good-quality medicines, first line support, treatment of injuries and psychosocial and mental health support, emergency contraception, safe abortion where such services are permitted by national law, post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection, diagnosis and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, training for medical professionals to effectively identify and treat women subjected to violence, as well as forensic examinations by appropriately trained professionals;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34hh
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Undertake legislative, administrative, financial and other measures to give women full and equal access to economic resources, including the right to inheritance and to ownership of land and other property, credit, natural resources and appropriate technologies, inter alia, by means of international cooperation; prioritize and intensify initiatives towards the economic empowerment of women at the grass-roots level, including through entrepreneurship education and business incubators, as a way of uplifting their status, thereby reducing their vulnerability to violence;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7g
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Ensuring free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration, and further identifying and removing physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to birth registration, particularly barriers faced by indigenous women and girls, ensuring adequate training, and increasing, as needed, the accessibility of birth registration facilities;
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
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- 2016
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34yy
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Take measures to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and exploitation, violence, and sexual harassment and bullying, and that they address discrimination and violence against women and girls, as appropriate, through measures such as regulatory and oversight frameworks and reforms, collective agreements, codes of conduct, including appropriate disciplinary measures, protocols and procedures, referral of cases of violence to health services for treatment and police for investigation; as well as through awareness-raising and capacity-building, in collaboration with employers, unions and workers, including workplace services and flexibility for victims and survivors;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 20
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- Requests the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences to hold consultations or participate in the work, as appropriate, and by the invitation of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in order to accelerate the implementation of the goals of the Special Rapporteur on prevention of and response to violence against women;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34w
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Adopt and fund policy reforms and programmes, and support education, in order to sensitize, train and strengthen the capacity of public officials and professionals, including the judiciary, police and military, as well as those working in the areas of education, health, social welfare, justice, defence and immigration; and hold public officials accountable for not complying with laws and regulations relating to violence against women and girls, in order to prevent and respond to such violence in a gender-sensitive manner, end impunity and avoid the abuse of power leading to violence against women and the revictimization of victims and survivors;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ggg
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening multisectoral services, programmes and responses to violence against women and girls]: (ggg) Create, develop and implement a set of policies, and support the establishment of rehabilitative services, in order to encourage and bring changes in the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators of violence against women and girls and to reduce the likelihood of reoffending, including in cases of domestic violence, rape and harassment, as well as monitor and assess their impact and effect;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7a
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Developing, reviewing and strengthening inclusive policies, including by allocating adequate resources to address the historical, structural and underlying causes and risk factors of violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, and ensuring that laws and policies are harmonized to address widespread violence against women and are in compliance with their international human rights obligations;
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 15
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- Calls upon States to consider ratifying or acceding to all relevant instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the optional protocols thereto, and to cooperate through regional conventions, instruments and initiatives to prevent and respond effectively to violence against women and girls;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34mm
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Mobilize communities and institutions to address and change attitudes, behaviours and practices that perpetuate and condone gender stereotypes and all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, by engaging with women's and youth organizations, national machineries for the advancement of women, national human rights institutions where they exist, schools, educational and media institutions and others directly working with women and girls, men and boys and with individuals at all levels of society and in all settings, religious and community leaders and elders, teachers and parents;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
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- 2013
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ee
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Accelerate efforts to develop, review and strengthen policies, and allocate adequate financial and human resources, in order to address the structural and underlying causes of violence against women and girls, including gender discrimination, inequality, unequal power relations between women and men, gender stereotypes, poverty as well as their lack of empowerment, in particular in the context of the economic and financial crisis; and accelerate efforts to eradicate poverty and persistent legal, social and economic inequalities, including by strengthening the economic participation, empowerment and inclusion of women and girls, in order to decrease their risk of violence;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 3
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- Underscores that violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, whether committed in the public or private sphere, is a matter of grave public concern and that States have the primary responsibility for protecting and promoting the human rights of women and girls, and in this respect strongly urges States to take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination in policy and in practice;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34u
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Strengthen international cooperation, including through the fulfilment of international official development assistance commitments, that supports multisectoral policies, strategies, programmes and best practices, in accordance with national priorities aimed at achieving sustainable development and the realization of the empowerment of women, particularly towards ending violence against women and girls and promoting gender equality;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34bbb
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Further adopt and implement measures to ensure the social and legal inclusion and protection of women migrants, including women migrant workers in origin, transit and destination countries, and promote and protect the full realization of their human rights, and their protection against violence and exploitation; implement gender-sensitive policies and programmes for women migrant workers and provide safe and legal channels that recognize their skills and education, provide fair labour conditions, and as appropriate facilitate their productive employment and decent work as well as integration into the labour force;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 1
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- Stresses that “violence against women” means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women and girls of any age, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life, and notes the economic and social harm caused by such violence;
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34zz
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Increase measures to protect women and girls from violence and harassment, including sexual harassment and bullying, in both public and private spaces, to address security and safety, through awareness-raising, involvement of local communities, crime prevention laws, policies, programmes such as the Safe Cities Initiative of the United Nations, improved urban planning, infrastructures, public transport and street lighting, and also through social and interactive media;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34jj
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Design and implement national policies that aim at transforming those social norms that condone violence against women and girls, and work to counteract attitudes by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys or as having stereotyped roles that perpetuate practices involving violence or coercion;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34n
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: End impunity by ensuring accountability and punishing perpetrators of the most serious crimes against women and girls under national and international law, and stressing the need for the alleged perpetrators of those crimes to be held accountable under national justice or, where applicable, international justice;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 8
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- Urges States to condemn strongly and publicly all forms of violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, and to refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination, including harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation;
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- Harmful Practices
- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
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- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 4
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- Continues to express particular concern at the systemic and structural discrimination and violence faced by women human rights defenders of all ages, including indigenous women and girl human rights defenders, and calls upon States to exercise due diligence in preventing violations and abuses against all human rights defenders, including through practical steps, to prevent threats, harassment and violence, and in combating impunity by ensuring that those responsible for violations and abuses, including gender-based violence and threats, committed by State or non-State actors, including online, are promptly brought to justice through impartial investigations;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 14d
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- Adopting measures to raise the awareness of women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, and in particular those at known risk of sexual and gender-based violence, of their rights and the law, and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families that have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women and girls who have been subjected to violence, when possible in a language in which they can effectively communicate, and at all stages of the justice system;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: protecting victims of trafficking and persons at risk of trafficking, especially women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 8
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- Welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and recalling targets 5.2, 8.7 and 16.2, which aim at eliminating all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation; taking immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms; and ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34y
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Create and enhance a supportive environment for increased consultation and participation among all relevant stakeholders in efforts to address violence against women and girls, especially organizations working at the community level, in order to promote the empowerment of women and girls, as well as victims and survivors, so they can become agents of change and their knowledge and experience can contribute to the elaboration of policies and programmes;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ww
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Support the development and use of information and communications technology and social media as a resource for the empowerment of women and girls, including access to information on the prevention of and response to violence against women and girls; and develop mechanisms to combat the use of information and communications technology and social media to perpetrate violence against women and girls, including the criminal misuse of information and communications technology for sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, child pornography and trafficking in women and girls, and emerging forms of violence, such as cyberstalking, cyberbullying and privacy violations that compromise the safety of women and girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34nn
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Promote and protect the human rights of all women, including their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence; and adopt and accelerate the implementation of laws, policies and programmes which protect and enable the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including their reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and their review outcomes;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 16
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- Recognizing that violence against indigenous women and girls cannot be separated from the wider context of discrimination and exclusion to which indigenous persons are often exposed in social, economic, cultural and political life, and deeply concerned about indications that indigenous women and girls are disproportionately affected by violence, including sexual violence, given the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination to which they may be exposed,
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- Violence
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34xx
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Improve the safety of girls at, and on the way to and from, school, including by establishing a safe and violence-free environment by improving infrastructure such as transportation and providing separate and adequate sanitation facilities, improved lighting, playgrounds and safe environments; adopting national policies to prohibit, prevent and address violence against children, especially girls, including sexual harassment and bullying and other forms of violence, through measures such as conducting violence prevention activities in schools and communities, and establishing and enforcing penalties for violence against girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Education
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 2
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- Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, including against indigenous women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the elimination of all forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including where perpetrated or condoned by the State, as described in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Violence
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- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 25
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- Expressing concern at the low levels of birth registration among indigenous women and girls, and taking into consideration that registering a person’s birth is a vital step towards the promotion and protection of all of his or her human rights, and that persons without birth registration may be more vulnerable to marginalization, exclusion, discrimination, violence, statelessness, exploitation and abuse,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 4
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- Welcoming the World Health Organization global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence, in particular against women and girls, and against children, building on existing work of the Organization, in particular its call for the prevention and elimination of all forms of sexual and gender-based violence in public and private life,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Health
- Violence
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- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7c
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Taking measures to empower women by, inter alia, strengthening their economic autonomy and ensuring their full and equal participation in society, and in decision-making processes by adopting and implementing social and economic policies that guarantee women full and equal access to quality education, including comprehensive sexuality education, and training, and affordable and adequate public and social services, as well as full and equal access to financial resources and decent work, and full and equal rights to own and to have access to and control over land and other property, and guaranteeing women’s and girls’ inheritance rights;
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- Gender
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- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34l
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening implementation of legal and policy frameworks and accountability]: Ensure that in armed conflict and post-conflict situations the prevention of and response to all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence, are prioritized and effectively addressed, including as appropriate through the investigation, prosecution and punishment of perpetrators to end impunity, removal of barriers to women's access to justice, the establishment of complaint and reporting mechanisms, the provision of support to victims and survivors, affordable and accessible health-care services, including sexual and reproductive health, and reintegration measures; and take steps to increase women's participation in conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes and post-conflict decision-making;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
- Date modified
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 26
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- Underscoring that the duty of States to exercise due diligence to provide protection to women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, who have been subjected to or are at risk of violence, includes using all appropriate means of a legal, political, administrative and social nature to provide access to justice, health care and support services that respond to their immediate needs, protect against further harm and continue to address the ongoing consequences of violence for women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, taking into consideration the impact of violence on their families and communities,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Violence
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- Women
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34kkk
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening multisectoral services, programmes and responses to violence against women and girls]: (kkk) Eliminate discrimination and violence against women and girls living with HIV as well as the caregivers of persons living with HIV, and take into account their vulnerability to stigma, discrimination, poverty and marginalization from their families and communities when implementing programmes and measures which encourage the equal sharing of caring responsibilities;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 21
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- Encourages regular consultations by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, with, inter alia, the Commission on the Status of Women, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, the United Nations Population Fund and the Statistics Division of the United Nations on the issue of disaggregated data on violence against women and effective ways of advancing the elimination of violence against women;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 15
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- Reiterating the need to intensify efforts at all levels to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, throughout the world, and stressing that women’s economic, political and social empowerment is essential for preventing violence and addressing the underlying causes of violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7f
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Measuring the effectiveness of policies and programmes to prevent violence against women and girls, including by carrying out regular evaluation and monitoring, and ensuring that they do not put indigenous women and girls at any additional risk;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
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- Women
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: protecting victims of trafficking and persons at risk of trafficking, especially women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 12
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- Also urges Governments to ensure that the prevention of and responses to trafficking in persons continue to take into account the specific needs of women and girls and their participation in and contribution to all phases of preventing and responding to trafficking, especially in addressing specific forms of exploitation, such as sexual exploitation;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 13
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- Recalling the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, in which States committed to intensifying efforts, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against indigenous peoples and individuals, in particular women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, by strengthening legal, policy and institutional frameworks, and recalling the work of indigenous-specific United Nations mechanisms in addressing violence against women and girls,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
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- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7b
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Abolishing practices and legislation that discriminate against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls; eliminating prejudices, harmful practices and gender stereotypes; and raising awareness of the unacceptability of violence against women and girls;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7d
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Removing gender bias and other forms of discrimination from the administration of justice, and enhancing the capacity of law enforcement officials to deal appropriately with all forms of violence against women and girls, including against indigenous women and girls, by providing systematic gender sensitivity training, as appropriate, for police and security forces, prosecutors, judges and lawyers, integrating gender considerations into security sector reform initiatives, developing protocols and guidelines, and enhancing or putting in place appropriate accountability measures for adjudicators;
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- Violence
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- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 20
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- Expressing concern at institutional and structural discrimination against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, such as laws, policies, regulations, programmes, administrative procedures or structures, services and practices that directly or indirectly restrict access to institutions, property and landownership, health-care services, education, employment and access to credit, which negatively affect their empowerment and increase their vulnerability to violence,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
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- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7e
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Engaging, educating, encouraging and supporting men and boys to take responsibility for their behaviour and to become active partners in the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against all women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, and to end the stigmatization of victims and survivors of violence by encouraging a change in attitudes, perceptions of masculinity, gender stereotypes and other norms and behaviour through the promotion of gender equality;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Boys
- Girls
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34oo
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Develop and implement gender-sensitive policies, strategies, programmes and measures which promote greater understanding and recognition that caregiving is a critical societal function, and encourage the equal sharing of responsibilities and chores between men and women in caregiving, including for persons with disabilities, older persons and people living with HIV, as well as for child-rearing, parenting and domestic work; and also work to change attitudes that reinforce the division of labour based on gender, in order to promote shared family responsibility for work in the home and reduce the domestic work burden for women and girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Older persons
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 5
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- Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Human Rights, the General Assembly and the Security Council, including those on women, peace and security and on children in armed conflict, and the relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, which affirmed that all forms of violence against women must be condemned and eliminated,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 14f
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- Ensuring that remedies for women and girls subjected to violence, whether judicial, administrative, policy or other measures, are available, accessible, acceptable, age- and gender-sensitive and adequately address victims’ needs, including by protecting confidentiality, preventing the stigmatization, revictimization or further harm to victims, allowing reasonable time for women subjected to violence to come forward to seek redress, and ensuring reasonable evidentiary standards;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 24
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- Recognizing that the absence of adequate gender statistics, including data disaggregated by, inter alia, sex, age and disability, and of specific data on the incidence of violence against women and girls, its context and its perpetrators impedes efforts to design specific intervention strategies to address both the causes and the consequences of violence against women and girls, and to ensure coordinated and consolidated efforts to address gender data gaps,
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34lll
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- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening multisectoral services, programmes and responses to violence against women and girls]: Expand the availability of health-care services, and in particular, strengthen maternal and reproductive health centres, as key entry points that provide support, referrals to services and protection to families, women and girls at risk of violence, especially sexual violence, and which provide support to adolescents in order to avoid early and unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, through education, information and access to sexual and reproductive health-care services;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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Human rights and indigenous peoples 2015, para. 9
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- Decides to hold, at its thirty-third session, a half-day panel discussion on the causes and consequences of violence against indigenous women and girls, including those with disabilities;
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Rights of the child: Information and communications technologies and child sexual exploitation 2016, para. 5
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- Welcoming further the adoption by the General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, underscoring the importance of its implementation in ensuring the enjoyment of the rights of the child, and recalling that it includes target 5.2, on eliminating all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation, and target 16.2, on ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children,
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8c
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Accelerating efforts to develop, review and strengthen inclusive policies, including by allocating adequate resources to address the structural and underlying causes of domestic violence against women and girls, to overcome gender stereotypes, to encourage media to examine the impact of gender-role stereotypes, including those perpetuated by commercial advertisements that foster gender-based violence and inequalities, to promote zero tolerance for such violence and to remove the stigma of being a victim and survivor of violence, thus creating an enabling and accessible environment where women and girls can easily report incidents of violence and make use of the services available, including protection and assistance programmes;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8
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- Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, and that all forms of violence against women and girls seriously violate and impair or nullify their enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitute a major impediment to women’s full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision-making,
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 9d
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- [Also calls upon States to take effective action to respond to domestic violence, including by:] Creating, developing and implementing a set of policies, and supporting the establishment of rehabilitative services, in order to encourage and bring changes in the attitudes and behaviour of perpetrators of violence against women and girls, and to reduce the likelihood of reoffending, including in cases of domestic violence, rape and harassment, as well as monitoring and assessing their impact and effect;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 12
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- Encourages States to improve the collection, harmonization and use of data disaggregated by sex, administrative data, including, where appropriate, from the police, the health sector and the judiciary, on incidents of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, such as data on the relationship between the perpetrator and victim and geographic location, ensuring that confidentiality and ethical and safety considerations are taken into account in the process of data collection, and improving the effectiveness of the services and programmes provided and protecting the safety and security of the victim;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 6
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- Taking note of the resolution, adopted by the World Health Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, on strengthening the role of the health system in addressing violence, in particular against women and girls, and against children, and noting the recent work on the development of a global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence, in particular against women and girls and against children, building on existing relevant work of the World Health Organization,
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 3
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- Strongly condemns all forms of violence against women of all ages, including domestic violence, while recognizing that it is an impediment to achieving gender equality and to the full realization of all human rights of women, while expressing concern that domestic violence is the most prevalent and least visible forms of violence against women and girls and that its consequences are long-lasting and profound and affect many areas in the lives of victims;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 10c
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- [Urges States to take effective action to protect victims of domestic violence, including by:] Fulfilling their obligations at all levels to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including those of women and girls, and exercising due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and hold to account perpetrators, and to eliminate impunity and provide for access to appropriate remedies for victims and survivors, and should ensure the protection and empowerment of women and girls, including through adequate enforcement by police and the judiciary of civil remedies, orders of protection and criminal sanctions;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8a
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Publicly condemning, addressing and penalizing the perpetrators of offences involving physical, sexual and psychological violence and economic deprivation occurring in the family, which encompasses but is not limited to battering, sexual abuse of women and girls in the household, incest, dowry-related violence, marital rape, partner violence, femicide, female infanticide, crimes committed against women and girls in the name of so-called “honour”, crimes committed in the name of passion, practices harmful to women and girls such as child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation;
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- Harmful Practices
- Violence
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 13
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- Reaffirms the importance of a stand-alone goal on achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, including a target on eliminating all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres by 2030, and looks forward to the integration of a gender perspective into the post-2015 development agenda and the mainstreaming of gender equality and women’s empowerment into all sustainable development goals, as reflected in the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, which is the main basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda, while recognizing that other inputs will also be considered;
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Elimination of discrimination against women 2015, para. 12
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- Stresses the need to accelerate efforts at all levels to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8f
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Emphasizing the important role that men and boys can play in preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls, and further developing and implementing measures that reinforce non-violent actions, attitudes and values, and encourage men and boys to take an active part and become strategic partners and allies in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, and the importance of effectively responding to violence against boys as well, in order to break intergenerational cycles of violence;
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Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 14
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- Urges States to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage by improving safety of girls at and on the way to and from school, including by establishing a safe and violence-free environment by improving infrastructure, such as transportation, and providing separate and adequate sanitation facilities, improved lighting, playgrounds and safe environments, and adopting policies to prohibit, prevent and address violence against children, especially girls, including sexual harassment and bullying and other forms of violence, through measures such as conducting violence prevention activities in schools and communities and establishing and enforcing penalties for violence against girls;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Education
- Violence
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- 2015
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8h
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Taking measures to empower women by, inter alia, strengthening their economic autonomy and ensuring their full and equal participation in society and in decision-making processes by adopting and implementing social and economic policies that guarantee women full and equal access to quality education, including comprehensive sexuality education, and training and affordable and adequate public and social services, as well as full and equal access to financial resources and decent work, and full and equal rights to own and have access to and control over land and other property, and guaranteeing women’s and girls’ inheritance rights;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 7
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- Urges States to support initiatives aimed at promoting gender equality and at preventing, responding to, and protecting women and girls from, domestic violence, undertaken by, inter alia, relevant women’s and men’s organizations, international and non-governmental organizations, the private sector, media, faith and community groups, religious leaders, parliamentarians, human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, and other relevant civil society actors, as part of their efforts to develop targeted and accessible programmes and policies;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8b
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Preventing violations and taking steps to prevent abuses of all human rights of women and girls, devoting particular attention to abolishing practices and legislation that discriminate against women and girls, eliminating prejudices, harmful practices and gender stereotypes and raising awareness of the unacceptability of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, at all levels;
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Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 40
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- Calls upon States to take, as a matter of urgency, all appropriate measures, including through sufficient resource allocation, to prevent, and to protect children, without discrimination of any kind, from, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to abolish harmful practices that compromise the dignity and integrity of the child and that are prejudicial to the health of boys and girls, particularly by preventing and explicitly condemning such practices, as well as addressing violence leading to child self-harm and suicide;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 11
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- Recognizing also that violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, is, inter alia, a serious violation or abuse of human rights, a societal problem and a manifestation of unequal power relations, and is intrinsically linked with gender stereotypes that underlie and perpetuate such violence, while stressing that women’s empowerment, including women’s economic and political empowerment, full and equal access to and control over land and resources, and participation in decision-making processes, are essential for addressing the underlying causes of violence against women and girls,
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 4
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- Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, as well as those of the Commission on Human Rights, on the elimination of all forms of violence against women, and recalling also relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, including its resolution 69/147 of 18 December 2014 on the intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, and those of the Security Council, and relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women,
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6m
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Adopting measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights and the law, and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to lence at all stages of the justice system, and to address social stigma and legal discrimination faced by victims of violence;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6j
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Promoting equal access to literacy, education, health services, food security, vocational, professional and leadership skills training, mentorship and employment opportunities, which ensure that women have access to the skills that are necessary to ensure their full political and economic empowerment;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Social & Cultural Rights
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6n
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Incorporating a gender perspective into social and economic policies, including development and poverty eradication strategies, with a view to ensuring that the formulation and implementation of relevant strategies contribute to women’s economic empowerment, thereby reducing their risk of violence;
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- Economic Rights
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 5
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- Expresses grave concern that violence against women and girls severely limits their capacity to participate fully and effectively in society and in the development of their communities, which undermines the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals, including goals on education, health, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
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- Gender
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6g
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Empowering women in the informal economy, with particular attention to women domestic workers, who are entitled to the same basic rights as other workers, including protection from violence and abuse, fair terms of employment and a safe and healthy working environment;
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- Gender
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 20
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- Recognizing also the important role of the United Nations system, in particular of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in addressing discrimination and violence against women and girls at the global, regional and national levels and in assisting States, upon their request, in their efforts to eliminate and prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, and highlighting the relevance of such efforts to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals,
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- Gender
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6c
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Condemning acts of violence against women involved in political processes and public debate, including women parliamentarians, political candidates and human rights defenders, by, inter alia, adopting legal and practical measures to prevent and punish such acts;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6a
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Taking effective steps to ensure the full and equal participation of women and men in all spheres of political life, including at the grass-roots level, in political reform and at all levels of decision-making, in all situations, and to contribute to the prevention and the elimination of discrimination and violence against women and girls;
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Elimination of discrimination against women 2014, para. 11
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- Deeply concerned by the widespread persistence of various forms of violence against girls and women of all ages,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6h
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Promoting equal and full access to and control over agricultural assets and productive resources, as well as membership in professional or trade associations and access to information networks;
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- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Violence
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6i
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Encouraging private sector investment in programmes, campaigns and strategies to respond to, prevent and eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls and to empower victims and survivors of violence, including survivors of conflict-related sexual violence;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 12
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- Acknowledging the important role that men and boys can play in preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls, and further encouraging men and boys to take an active part and become strategic partners and allies in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, and the importance of effectively responding to violence against boys as well, in order to break the intergenerational cycles of violence,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Boys
- Girls
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 12
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- Takes particular note of the report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, addressing discrimination against women in economic and social life, in which the aspect of violence against women is explicitly underlined, and encourages synergies between different relevant United Nations agencies and other actors in efforts to effectively eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls;
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- Gender
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6d
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Encouraging political parties to adopt policies, as appropriate, to promote the ability of women to participate fully at all levels of decision-making within those political parties and to combat discrimination and harassment based on sex through the implementation of anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 13
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- Recognizing that poverty and lack of empowerment of women, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Violence
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 8
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- Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, and that all forms of violence against women and girls seriously violate and impair or nullify their enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitute a major impediment to the ability of women and girls to make use of their capabilities,
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 3
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- Calls upon States to develop or strengthen comprehensive national women-centred multisectoral responses involving relevant authorities in sectors such as justice, health, social services, education and child protection services, as well as relevant non-State actors, that focus on the prevention of violence, the provision of support services for victims and survivors of violence and the punishment of perpetrators to enable accountability and to promote the empowerment of women and girls by changing harmful attitudes, practices and stereotypes;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 2
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- Urges States and all segments of society, including all levels of government, civil society organizations, the private sector and the media, as well as community and religious leaders, to take meaningful steps to address the harmful attitudes, customs, practices, stereotypes and unequal power relations that underlie and perpetuate violence against women and girls, including by designing, implementing and evaluating national policies, programmes and strategies aimed at transforming social norms that condone violence against women and girls, and to counteract attitudes by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys or as having stereotyped roles that perpetuate practices involving violence or coercion;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 16
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- Expressing concern about institutional and structural discrimination against women and girls, such as laws, policies, regulations, programmes, administrative procedures or structures and services that directly or indirectly regulate access to institutions, property and land ownership, health, education, employment and access to credit, which negatively affect women’s empowerment and increase their vulnerability to violence,
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- Economic Rights
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6k
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Promoting and protecting sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action, and the outcome documents of their review conferences;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6f
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- [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Promoting women’s full participation in the formal economy, in particular in economic decision-making, and their equal access to full and productive employment, decent work and social protection, ensuring that women and men enjoy equal treatment in the workplace, as well as equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and equal access to power and decision-making, and promoting the equal distribution of paid and unpaid work, including valuing unpaid care work;
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- Girls
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- 2014
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons 2013, para. 8b
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- [Calls upon States to provide, as set forth in the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and with the support of international and national stakeholders, for national laws and policies that comprehensively protect the human rights of internally displaced persons and adequately address the specific needs of internally displaced women and girls, including:] By providing gender-sensitive training for police, military personnel, the judiciary, social workers and other officials, including on preventing and addressing sexual and gender-based violence in displacement situations;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Movement
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Rights of the child: Access to justice for children 2014, para. 8a
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- [Reaffirms the duty of all States to protect children from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, maltreatment or exploitation, and calls upon States:] To ensure a safe environment for children in justice processes and that children, including unaccompanied children, in contact with the justice system are protected from any form of hardship by adapting procedures and adopting appropriate protective measures against abuse, exploitation, manipulation, violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, harassment, intimidation, reprisals or secondary victimization, taking into account that the risks faced by boys and girls may differ and that special precautionary measures may be needed when the alleged perpetrator is a parent, a member of the family or a primary caregiver;
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons 2013, para. 7
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- Strongly condemns the continued perpetration of sexual and gender-based violence against internally displaced persons of all ages, with women and girls disproportionately victimized, and urges authorities and the international community to work together for effective prevention, security, protection of human rights, access to justice and victim assistance, as well as in addressing the causes of violence against women and girls and in fighting impunity across the board;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 11
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- Deeply concerned that child, early and forced marriages expose young married girls to a greater risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections, often lead to early childbearing and increase the risk of disability, stillbirth, obstetric fistula and maternal death, and reduce their opportunities to complete their education, gain comprehensive knowledge or develop employable skills, and violate and impair the full enjoyment of the human rights of women and girls, preventing women and girls from becoming full, contributing members of society,
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- Health
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 4c
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- [Urges States to take meaningful steps to address the harmful attitudes, customs, practices, stereotypes and unequal power relations that underlie and perpetuate rape and other forms of sexual violence by, inter alia:] Engaging, educating, encouraging and supporting men and boys to take responsibility for their behaviour and to become active partners in the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, and to end the stigmatization of victims by encouraging a change in attitudes, norms and behaviour through the promotion of gender equality;
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- Violence
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses 2013, para. 1c
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- [Reiterates its concern at:] The use of new information technologies, including the Internet, for the purposes of exploitation that constitute trafficking, such as for trafficking in women and girls for forced marriages, for forced labour and services and for exploitation in sex tourism, as well as trafficking in children for, inter alia, child pornography, paedophilia, forced labour and services, and any other form of exploitation of children;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 9
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- Affirms the need for States to take practical steps to ensure women’s access to justice, including by creating an enabling environment where women and girls can easily report incidents of violence, including sexual violence, through, inter alia, victim services, testimonial support and the possibility of publication bans, by improving victim and witness protection, protecting confidentiality and privacy rights, and providing law enforcement officials and first responders with human rights training;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 16
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- Recognizing the important role of the United Nations system, in particular of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in addressing discrimination and violence against women and girls at the global, regional and national levels and in assisting States, upon their request, in their efforts to eliminate and prevent all forms of violence against women and girls,
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 4a
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- [Urges States to take meaningful steps to address the harmful attitudes, customs, practices, stereotypes and unequal power relations that underlie and perpetuate rape and other forms of sexual violence by, inter alia:] Publicly condemning, at the highest levels, rape and sexual violence against women and girls on any grounds, and providing visible and sustained leadership, by men and women alike, to support effective prevention;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 19
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- Also invites the Office of the High Commissioner to include, during the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights to be held during the twenty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, a discussion on the outcome of the meeting of the open-ended intergovernmental expert group to be convened by the Secretary-General in 2014 and organized by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on ways and means to more effectively prevent, prosecute and punish gender-related killings of women and girls, and on the work carried out on good and promising practices, such as the non-binding model protocol and the best practices guide for the investigation of gender-related killings in Latin America;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 13
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- Underlines that, in situations of peaceful protest, civil unrest, public emergency or political transition, States must continue to take all necessary measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual violence, and must ensure that such acts, whether or not committed by State or non-State actors in the course of achieving political or military objectives or, as a means of intimidation or repression, are promptly and effectivelyinvestigated and, if grounds for it are established, prosecuted;
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence 2013, para. 12
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- Stresses the need for States and relevant United Nations agencies to ensure that measures to provide protection to victims and witnesses of rape and other forms of sexual violence extend to and address the specific needs of those most vulnerable to these forms of violence, including indigenous, disabled, refugee and internally displaced women and girls, women in custody, women and girls forcibly recruited by armed forces and armed non-State actors, and trafficked women and girls, including those forced into sexual exploitation and slavery;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Remedies for women who have been subjected to violence 2012, para. 4
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- Also urges States to ensure that remedies for women and girls subjected to violence, whether judicial, administrative, policy or other measures, are available, accessible, acceptable, age- and gender-sensitive and adequately address victims’ needs, including by protecting confidentiality, preventing stigmatization, revictimization or further harm to victims, allowing reasonable time for women subjected to violence to come forward to seek redress, ensuring reasonable evidentiary standards, providing necessary translation services and minimizing the complexity of procedures;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2012
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Remedies for women who have been subjected to violence 2012, para. 2
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- Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States to take measures to investigate, prosecute, punish and redress, including by ensuring access to adequate, effective, prompt and appropriate remedies, the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the workplace, the community or society, in custody or in situations of armed conflict;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Girls
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Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2012, para. 17b
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- [Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including by enacting and enforcing legislation and, where appropriate, formulating comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, policies, programmes or strategies to promote and protect the human rights of the girl child, in order to:] Protect girls from all forms of violence and exploitation, including female infanticide, female genital mutilation, rape, domestic violence, incest, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, child prostitution and child pornography, human trafficking, forced migration, forced labour, early and forced marriage and forced sterilization, including by addressing their root causes, to eliminate prenatal sex selection and to develop age-appropriate safe and confidential programmes and medical, social and psychological support services to assist girls who are subjected to violence and discrimination;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
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- Children
- Girls
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- 2012
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Remedies for women who have been subjected to violence 2012, para. 1
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- Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law, and the duty to provide victims with access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance, including medical and psychological assistance, as well as effective counselling;
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- Violence
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- 2012
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5a
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To enact and, where necessary, reinforce or amend domestic legislation and other measures to enhance the protection of victims, including, where appropriate, by providing for the use of testimonial aids in criminal proceedings to avoid re-victimization and access to legal representation, and to ensure that such legislation or measures conform with relevant international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5h
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To adopt measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights, the law and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to violence, at all stages of the justice system;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Families
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5p
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To monitor the effectiveness of laws, policies, programmes and measures aimed at protecting women and girls facing any form of violence, including monitoring actions taken by State agencies in relation to the investigation and prosecution of cases of violence and to convictions and sentencing;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5n
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To support initiatives undertaken by and engage in strategic partnerships with women’s groups, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, media, faith and community groups and other relevant civil society actors and international organizations aimed at protecting women and girls who have been subjected to violence, promoting gender equality and the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 4
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- Emphasizes that women should be empowered to protect themselves against violence and, in this regard, stresses the need for legal and policy measures that promote the full enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights by eliminating discrimination against women, promoting gender equality, empowering women and promoting their full autonomy, including with regard to land, property, marriage and divorce, child custody and inheritance, and to promote equal access to literacy, education, skills training and employment opportunities, political participation and representation, credit, agricultural extension, adequate housing, just and favourable conditions of work, and business and leadership skills training;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5f
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To place a high priority on removing gender bias from the administration of justice and enhancing the capacity of law enforcement officials to deal appropriately with violence against women, including by providing systematic gender-sensitivity and awareness training, as appropriate, for police and security forces, prosecutors, judges and lawyers, integrating gender into security sector reform initiatives, developing protocols and guidelines, and enhancing or putting in place appropriate accountability measures for adjudicators;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 3
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- Recognizes that effective protection requires comprehensive, integrated, coordinated multisectoral approaches involving multiple stakeholders, including women’s organizations, religious and community leaders, youth, men and boys, victim service workers and advocates, law enforcement personnel, the judiciary, corrections officials and forensic scientists, as well as legal, health and education professionals, and that such responses should avoid re-victimization, be empowering to the victim, be evidence-based and culturally sensitive, and integrate the specific and differentiated needs of women and girls who face multiple, intersecting and aggravated forms of discrimination;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
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- Boys
- Girls
- Men
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- Youth
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 6
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- Urges States and the United Nations system to give attention to and encourage greater international cooperation in systematic research and the collection, analysis and dissemination of data, including data disaggregated by sex, age and disability, and other relevant information on the extent, nature and consequences of violence against women and girls, and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes for protecting women and girls who have been subjected to violence and, in this context, urges States and the United Nations system to regularly provide information for inclusion in the Secretary-General’s coordinated database on violence against women;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 8
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- Underscoring also that the duty of States to exercise due diligence to provide protection to women and girls who have been subjected to or are at risk of violence includes using all appropriate means of a legal, political, administrative and social nature to provide access to justice, health care and support services that respond to their immediate needs, protect against further harm and continue to address the ongoing consequences of violence for women and girls, taking into consideration the impact of violence on their families and communities,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 4
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- Welcoming the steps taken by the United Nations system to strengthen the physical and legal protection of women and girls facing violence, notably by advancing the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda, including through work on global indicators on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and the ongoing efforts to develop the monitoring, analysis and reporting mechanism on conflict-related sexual violence by consolidating and strengthening United Nations efforts to promote the empowerment of women and the realization of their human rights through the creation of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and through the Secretary-General’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women”,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5j
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To promote the establishment or support of safe and integrated centres through which shelter, legal, health-care, psychological, counselling and other appropriate, timely, accessible and confidential support services are provided to all women and girls who have been subjected to violence and, where such centres are not feasible, to promote collaboration and coordination among agencies in order to make remedies more accessible, and to facilitate the physical, psychological and social recovery of women who have been subjected to violence;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: Mandate of the Special Rapporteur 2011, para. 7
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- Recognizing that victims of trafficking are particularly exposed to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and that women and girl victims are often subject to multiple forms of discrimination and violence, including on the grounds of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, culture and religion, as well as national or social origin, or other status, and that these forms of discrimination may themselves fuel trafficking in persons,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
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- Children
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 11
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- Invites the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a thematic analytical study on the issue of violence against women and girls and disability, in consultation with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission for Social Development of the Economic and Social Council, other relevant special procedure mandate holders, States, United Nations entities, regional organizations, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders, and to report to the Human Rights Council at its twentieth session;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 2
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- Stresses that States have the obligation to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls, and must exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls and provide protection and support to women and girls who have been subjected to violence, and that failure to do so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5k
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To ensure that mechanisms, services and procedures set up to protect women and girls facing violence are designed in a manner that addresses the targeted, compounded and structural discrimination that combines to increase the vulnerability of women and girls, including those belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee and internally displaced women, stateless women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, women living in slums and informal settlements, women living in conditions of poverty, women in institutions or in detention, women with disabilities, elderly women, widows and women in all situations of armed conflict, women who face trafficking, sexual or labour exploitation, and women who are otherwise discriminated against, including on the basis of their HIV/AIDS status;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 1
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- Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, where these acts are perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law, and the duty to provide victims with access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance, including medical and psychological assistance, as well as effective counselling;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Violence
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5g
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To encourage the removal of all barriers to women’s access to justice and ensure access to effective legal assistance for all female victims of violence so that they can make informed decisions regarding, inter alia, legal proceedings and issues relating to family law, and also ensure that victims have access to just and effective remedies for the harm that they have suffered, including through the adoption of national legislation, where necessary;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5b
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To take measures to investigate, prosecute, punish and redress, including by ensuring access to adequate, effective, prompt and appropriate remedies, the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the workplace, the community or society, in custody, or in situations of armed conflict;
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- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5l
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To establish a multidisciplinary, coordinated response to sexual assault that prevents the re-victimization of women and includes specially trained police, prosecutors, judges, forensic examiners, victim support services and, where appropriate, testimonial aids and other accommodations, to contribute to the well-being of victims, ensure that they are able to participate fully, and increase the likelihood of the successful apprehension, prosecution and conviction of perpetrators;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5e
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To develop and, where necessary, strengthen policing systems and judicial procedures to provide adequate protection for women who have been subjected to violence, including by ensuring conducive environments for women and girls to report acts of violence against them, timely and thorough investigation of all allegations of violence, effective and victim-sensitive collection and processing of evidence, especially forensic evidence, effective protection of victims and their families from acts of retaliation, respect for the privacy, dignity and autonomy of all victims, as well as necessary victim protection measures, such as restraining or expulsion orders and adequate witness protection;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Violence
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- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5q
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To establish or strengthen plans of action to eliminate violence against women and girls that clearly delineate government accountabilities for protection and are supported by the necessary human, financial and technical resources, including, where appropriate, time-bound measurable targets, to accelerate the implementation of existing plans of action and to regularly monitor and update them, taking into account inputs by civil society, in particular women’s organizations, networks and other stakeholders;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5i
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- [Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To promote an increase in the number of women lawyers, judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officials where women are underrepresented in these professions, and to take steps to address any barriers that may be preventing women from entering these professions, including through the use of appropriate incentives, as important steps towards enhancing women’s awareness of their rights and the ability of the judiciary and law enforcement officials to be more sensitive to the specific and differentiated needs of women and girls who face targeted, compounded and structural discrimination;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2011
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 16
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- Urges States and the United Nations system to give attention to and encourages greater international cooperation in systematic research and the collection, analysis and dissemination of data, including data disaggregated by sex, age, disability and other relevant information on the extent, nature and consequences of violence against women and girls, as well as on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes aimed at combating this violence and, in this context, also urges States and the United Nations system to regularly provide information for inclusion in the Secretary-General’s database on violence against women;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2010
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 8
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- Stressing that the realization of all human rights by women and girls, such as those regarding education, access to health, economic participation, access to the labour market, conditions of work, disparities in salaries and compensation, public and political participation, access to decision-making processes, inheritance, financial services, including loans, nationality and legal capacity, ownership of land, property, housing, social security and cultural life, supported by appropriate responses dealing with legal literacy, skills training and access to productive resources, is a key factor in preventing violence against women and girls, and that, in many instances, the different treatment of women before the law has resulted in the lack of equal opportunities for them in these areas,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2010
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 7
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- Further urges States to publicly condemn violence against women and provide visible and sustained leadership at the highest levels to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, and, in particular, in efforts to confront the attitudes, customs, practices and gender stereotypes that lie at the core of discriminatory and harmful acts and practices that are violent towards women, such as female genital mutilation, forced and early marriage, femicide, crimes committed in the name of honour and crimes committed in the name of passion;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2010
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 6
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- Also urges States to promote, at all levels, environments and communities that are safe for women and girls, and to support the efforts of civil society and other stakeholders towards this end, including by taking measures designed to enhance personal security and reduce the risk of violence in the community, in the home and in the workplace, in particular those that eliminate barriers to safe access to schools and other educational settings, drinking water sources and sanitation facilities, workplaces and livelihoods, and participation in the life of the community;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 9
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- Urges States to devote the resources necessary to ensure effective and ongoing outreach, awareness-raising, education, training and engagement with relevant stakeholders who have an important role in the prevention and early response to warning signs of violence against women and girls, including government officials, community and religious leaders, and health, education, justice and law enforcement personnel, including prison personnel;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2010
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 4
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- Recognizing that power imbalances and structural inequality between men and women are among the root causes of violence against women, and that effective prevention of violence against women and girls requires action at all levels of government, the engagement of civil society, the involvement of men and boys and the adoption and implementation of multifaceted and comprehensive approaches that promote gender equality and empowerment of women, and integrate awareness, education, training, political will, legislation, accountability, targeted policies and programmes, specific measures to reduce vulnerability, data collection and analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and protection, support and redress for victims,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2010
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons 2010, para. 8
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- Recognizing that victims of trafficking are particularly exposed to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and that women and girl victims are often subject to multiple forms of discrimination and violence, including on the grounds of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, culture and religion, as well as national or social origin, and that these forms of discrimination may themselves fuel trafficking in persons,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 19
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- Urges States to establish or strengthen plans of action to eliminate violence against women and girls that clearly delineate government accountabilities for prevention and are supported by the necessary human, financial and technical resources, including, where appropriate, time-bound measurable targets, to promote the protection of women against any form of violence, and accelerate the implementation of existing plans of action that are regularly monitored and updated by Governments, taking into account inputs by civil society, in particular women’s organizations, networks and other stakeholders;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2010
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 21
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- Decides to include in the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights, at its seventeenth session, in consultation with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the theme of violence against women and girls, with an emphasis on prevention, with a view to sharing good practices and identifying remaining gaps in the area of prevention, and requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare and disseminate a summary of the proceedings;
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- Resolution
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2010
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 9
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- Deeply concerned that all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination and disadvantage, can lead to the targeting or vulnerability to violence of some women and girls, including women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee and internally displaced women, stateless women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, women living in slums and informal settlements, women living in conditions of poverty, women in institutions or in detention, women with disabilities, elderly women, widows and women in all situations of armed conflict, women who face trafficking, sexual or labour exploitation, and women who are otherwise discriminated against, including on the basis of their HIV/AIDS status,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2010
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 11d
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- [Stresses the importance of accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences throughout its work, and in this regard:] Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene, in 2010 within existing resources, in cooperation with other relevant entities of the United Nations system, an expert workshop, open to the participation of Governments, regional organizations, relevant United Nations bodies, civil society organizations and experts from different legal systems, to discuss specific measures for overcoming obstacles and challenges that States may face in preventing, investigating, prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of violence against women and girls, as well as measures for providing protection, support, assistance and redress for victims, and requests the Office to prepare a summary report thereon to be submitted to the Council;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2009
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 2
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- Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, whether they be perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law, and the duty to provide access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance to victims, including medical and psychological assistance, as well as effective counselling;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2009
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 4
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- Calls upon States to enact and, where necessary, reinforce or amend domestic legislation, including measures to enhance the protection of victims, to investigate, prosecute, punish and redress the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the workplace, the community or society, in custody or in situations of armed conflict, to ensure that such legislation conforms with relevant international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law, to abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women, to remove gender bias in the administration of justice, and to take action to investigate and punish persons who perpetrate acts of violence against women and girls;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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- 2009
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Rights of the child: The fight against sexual violence against children 2010, para. 10
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- Condemns in the strongest terms rape and other forms of sexual violence committed against children in situations of armed conflict, and in this regard, calls upon all parties to armed conflict to comply strictly with their obligations under applicable international law to protect children in armed conflict, urges them to immediately end such practices and to take all possible measures to protect boys and girls from rape and all forms of sexual violence, and calls upon States to assist child victims of these violations in situations of armed conflict and to seek to end impunity for perpetrators by ensuring rigorous investigation and prosecution of such crimes;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2010
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 4
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- Deeply concerned that all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination and disadvantage, can lead to the particular targeting or vulnerability to violence of girls and some groups of women, such as women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee and internally displaced women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, women with disabilities, elderly women, widows and women in situations of armed conflict, women who are otherwise discriminated against, including on the basis of HIV status, and victims of commercial sexual exploitation,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 6
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- Urges States and the United Nations system to give attention to, and encourages greater international cooperation in, systematic research and the collection, analysis and dissemination of data, including data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant information, on the extent, nature and consequences of violence against women and girls and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes for combating this violence, and, in this context, welcomes the establishment of the Secretary-General’s coordinated database on violence against women, and urges States and the United Nations system to regularly provide information for inclusion in the database;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2009
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 96a
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- Increase cooperation, policy responses, effective implementation of national legislation and other protective and preventive measures aimed at the elimination of violence against women and girls, especially all forms of commercial sexual exploitation, as well as economic exploitation, including trafficking in women and children, female infanticide, crimes committed in the name of honour, crimes committed in the name of passion, racially motivated crimes, abduction and sale of children, dowry-related violence and deaths, acid attacks and harmful traditional or customary practices, such as female genital mutilation, early and forced marriages;
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2000
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Women in development 2015, para. 19
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- Expressing deep concern about the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls,
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2015
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Women in development 2015, para. 19
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- Reiterates the need to further intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, and recognizes that violence against women and girls is one of the obstacles to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace and that women's poverty and lack of political, social and economic empowerment, as well as their marginalization, may result from their exclusion from social policies for and the benefits of sustainable development and can place them at increased risk of violence;
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 70a
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- Take appropriate measures to address the root factors, including external factors, that encourage trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriages and forced labour in order to eliminate trafficking in women, including by strengthening existing legislations with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing the perpetrators, through both criminal and civil measures;
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2000
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 47
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- Calls upon Governments, and encourages relevant intergovernmental bodies and international organizations, to ensure that military, peacekeeping and humanitarian personnel deployed in conflict, post-conflict and other emergency situations are provided with training on conduct that does not promote, facilitate or exploit trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual exploitation, and to raise the awareness of such personnel about the potential risks to victims of conflict and other emergency situations, including natural disasters, of being trafficked;
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 1
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- Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General, which provides information on measures by States and activities within the United Nations system to tackle trafficking in women and girls;
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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